How to Use blame in a Sentence

blame

1 of 2 verb

• I blame the poor harvest on the weather.
• My father always blames everything on me.
• Don't blame me. You are responsible for your own problems.
• The swiftness of the campaign’s about-face may be to blame.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023
• And in western New York, the icy weather was blamed for three deaths in three days.
  — Jonathan Mattise, arkansasonline.com, 19 Jan. 2024
• But Jordyn is not to be blamed for the breakup of my family.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2023
• Gang violence is still blamed for much of the bloodshed.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Harry Litman: Trump could try to blame his lawyers for Jan. 6.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Someone had to be blamed for killing the Minotaur, so the labyrinth builder, Daedelus, and his son Icarus were imprisoned.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• These are often to blame for the loss of livelihood and poverty that make the journey north seem worthwhile.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
• At the time, pundits blamed older voters who didn’t want to vote for a gay love story.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• Many blamed rising input costs on their own price hikes.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Dec. 2023
• On the contrary: Voters blame Biden for high food prices and interest rates.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Feb. 2024
• Putin has blamed Israel and the United States for the latest Hamas terror attack.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2023
• Several of them hustled over to Fox Business to blame Biden for the downgrade.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• The easiest thing to do in politics is to blame someone else.
  — Madison Burinsky, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2024
• The shift for Peck comes as some people close to the campaign blame her for the campaign's current struggles and stagnation in the polls.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Worse, folks tended to blame themselves for being scammed.
  — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• Loss of habitats, the rising use of pesticides on farms, and, yes, climate change—these are among the factors to blame.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• Authorities are investigating both the cause of the fire and whether the blaze is to blame for the woman’s death.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2023
• And some people with bad outcomes are looking for somebody to blame.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Most of the time, however, your external sphincter is to blame.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 12 Feb. 2024
• Ivey blamed the failures on appeals filed by death row inmates.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2023
• Beth blames the fact that her childhood wasn’t as brutal as some of the authors who wrote more successful tell-alls.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• But Stafford, 35, was not entirely to blame for defeats to the San Francisco 49ers and Bengals.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Kyle McCord has not been sacked, and of the two taken by Devin Brown, at least one could be blamed on the quarterback’s decision.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
• Anyone who has followed the fate of the TV business in recent years could not be blamed for thinking the medium is dying.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Prigozhin later died in a midair explosion in Russia that the United States and others blamed on the Kremlin.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• Newsom’s critics blame the governor and Democrats for overspending and causing the deficit.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Despite the healthy job market, a near-record-high stock market and a decline in inflation from its peak, many Americans blame Biden for high prices, polls show.
  — Colleen Long, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024

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blame

2 of 2 noun

• It's not entirely his fault, but he's not completely free of blame, either.
• This places the blame on the system, not the physicians.
  — Aaron Rothstein, wsj.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• Most of the blame can be placed on the hominins and their stone tools.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• As to the strike’s length, Schultz put the blame squarely on the studios.
  — Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Carey, who went down with his ship, received most of the blame for the tragedy.
  — Erica Westly, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• But the basic idea is to shift the blame from the perfume to the reaction.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• In a statement, Franke’s lawyers laid most of the blame on Hildebrandt.
  — Vulture, 27 Dec. 2023
• Although our poll shows Biden would get the blame for that as well.
  — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023
• If the economy tanks in the months ahead, Powell will get the blame.
  — Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Fortune, 9 May 2023
• Smart will shoulder some of the blame but Tatum and Jaylen Brown also shrank in the moment.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Of these, much of the blame falls on the brown recluse, a somewhat drab, venomous spider native to parts of the U.S.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• Don't want to put the blame on any shot or any one play certainly.
  — Bob Holt, arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2024
• Netanyahu may not bear direct blame for the WCK deaths.
  — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Even Barry got a quick death, but Cousineau took all the blame and is rotting in prison.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• Sure, Durbin’s point that Republicans are the main source of blame here is good and fine.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
• First, there are the Republicans, for whom the lion’s share of the blame must be reserved.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
• Out on the ocean, when the group realizes that not all the testing equipment was brought, blame is not cast.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• Biden has sought to lay the blame for high prices at grocery stores at the feet of corporations.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• China got the credit for driving the sector’s rally, and now the blame for the pullback.
  — Ksenia Galouchko, Fortune, 4 June 2023
• The White House is getting more blame than credit for the economy these days.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
• Maybe the blame should more properly be leveled against the rear seat itself.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Apr. 2023
• Both remain hurt over the blame their team shouldered for decades after the program was shut down.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• There was plenty of blame to go around in the Angels’ 11-8 loss to the lowly Kansas City Royals.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• But people being people, are really quick to put the blame on the dog.
  — Caroline Feller-Howard, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• Coaches will tell you that quarterbacks get too much praise and too much blame.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• DeSantis did not assign blame on the vague laws that have driven many of the challenges.
  — Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• And the only place Huggins should lay blame is the person staring at him in the mirror every day.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• Don’t for a second accept your in-laws’ sorry attempt to pass the blame onto you.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Both Trump and NeverTrump will, in fact, rightfully bear the blame, but the country will be worse off as a result.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 2 Nov. 2023
• Chamberlain, because of his massive size, often took the brunt of the blame for the losses to the Celtics by the Warriors, 76ers, and Lakers.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024